The horror fiction stories, “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat, written by Edgar Allan Poe have many similarities within each story. One example of a similarity in “The Tell Tale Heart” is “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me an insult” (Poe 3). In “The Black Cat” the author states “Pluto – this was the cat’s name – was my favorite pet and playmate. I alone fed him, and he attended me wherever I went about the house” (Poe 20). Clearly, one might infer that both narrators in the stories have a fond relationship between the victims they murder. The narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart” loves the old man, similar to how the narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart” cares for Pluto. An equally significant resemblance